<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Thanks Tom, you kind of confirm that listing software (program, application,technology) right direction - even if it hurts my heart.</div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">You are correct that "someone looking to migrate" is the primary audience of this. Indeed the other email thread has a tradeoff of providing a "Similar Proprietary Projects" or "Migrate From" heading.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">You are not covering old ground, thank you for contributing.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 September 2017 at 06:53, Tom Chadwin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom.chadwin@nnpa.org.uk" target="_blank">tom.chadwin@nnpa.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-">> I would like to bring to discuss a question that we are struggling with for<br>
> the website/rebranding - do we present "open source software" or "open source<br>
> projects"?<br>
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</span><span class="gmail-">> I am personally having a hard time thinking in terms of software since I like<br>
> the fact that open source project encompasses both the technology and the<br>
> people.<br>
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</span><span class="gmail-">For me, "projects" is of interest to contributors, while "software" is of<br>
interest to potential users. The range of OSGeo software/projects is bewildering<br>
to an outsider, with several pieces of software fulfilling the same function.<br>
Someone looking to migrate (I am assuming that is the prime audience of this?)<br>
would presumably need to know which of the many software packages to investigate.<br>
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I would argue therefore that having QGIS Desktop and QGIS Server (for example) as<br>
a single entity for this audience is not helpful. Surely potential users have an<br>
idea of what they want to use the software for, and including multiple<br>
applications together is confusing ("I wanted a WFS server, not a desktop GIS").<br>
Of course, a "See also" for each package would then allow eg the linking of QGIS<br>
Desktop to QGIS Server, and also QGIS Desktop to gvSIG - in other words, links to<br>
software which integrates, and links to alternative software.<br>
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</span>I wasn't on the marketing list discussion - apologies if I'm covering old ground.<br>
<span class="gmail-"><br>
Tom<br>
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